Modern control for the secondary mirror of a giant segmented mirror telescope

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4840, Issue , 2002, Pages 140-150

  Whorton, M ^a,b   Angeli, G ^c  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c AURA New Initiatives Office   (United States)

Author keywords

Active optics; Flexible structures; H2 control; Modern control; Optimal control; Secondary mirror

Indexed keywords

FLEXIBLE STRUCTURES; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIRRORS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

MIRROR TELESCOPES;

TELESCOPES;

EID: 0037737949     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.458195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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